Sentences with phrase «for fair assessments»

Over the past two weeks, we've looked the ETS guidelines for fair assessments that PARCC adopted, as well as a sample item from PARCC.

Arsene spoke sense and selflessly and for this fair assessment he shouldn't get the abuse he gets from a section of fans.

I have owned neither and came here looking for a fair assessment of the two, but I felt like I was watching one of those stupid infomercials where an actor pretends he doesn't know how to slice a vegetable properly.

We believe this methodology provides for a fair assessment of the potential liquidation value of the Company's balance sheet.

Unfortunately, said Geduldig, animal - rights groups often frame the public - policy debate for the pet industry, and politicians usually align with the emotional side of an issue — both factors that do not make for fair assessment of the issues.

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Contrary to Marxist critiques, a fair assessment reveals that traditional faiths are a poor opium for the people.

As for the article, personally Ozil has yet to deliver on his price tag, whether that price tag was a fair assessment of Ozil's abilities, I am not sure, in this day and age due to the inflation in the market more and more of transfer fees are going to compensating a club for parting with a valuable asset but that is a train of thought for another day.

To get a fair and balanced assessment of the new film Draft Day, we unleashed PFT Commenter on the local multiplex for an advanced screening.

It's a fair assessment given that Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale, Karim Benzema and several other key figures will all be in direct competition with Mbappe for a place in Zinedine Zidane's starting line - up, but a move to the Bernabeu will surely be difficult to turn down regardless.

And he's still speaking his mind openly about Woods, giving a more - than - fair assessment of how difficult it will be for Big Cat to regain his form before the tournament.

There are no new archival discoveries, but Williams brings a critical but fair assessment to the last British Prime Minister born in the 19th century, whose premiership began with calls for change and modernity and ended in what appeared to be failure and ridicule.

Will the Minister accept that this experiment is failing, because it is not providing fair assessment, and look again at how best to obtain accurate results in these important exams for young people?

Morally, it suggests that decisions reached on the basis of a set financial contribution from members place no behavioural demands on those members - a principle which goes against any fair assessment of what is required for trust or cooperation.

Regional assessment of the data by the Fair Elections Coalition for New York campaign demonstrates that offshore tax havens cost New York State $ 2.4 billion in annual tax revenues.

Yet they still provide a fair assessment of the main areas of possible concern for peers.

Inusah Fuseini was in the news recently for advising the NDC to desist from crowd sourcing for their party activities in order to have a fair and reliable assessment of their genuine strength.

That's a fair assessment, says Richard Cupp, a law professor at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, and a noted opponent of personhood for animals.

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[Response: To amplify on that sentiment, though, I do think it is fair to take into account the track record of the investigator, the degree of support for the idea that can be seen in prior work, and the nature of the argument when making a jugement of what the long term assessment is likely to be — while waiting for that assessment to materialize.

This is a fair assessment given the rigor required for health claim evaluation.

Each review requires hundreds of hours of research by a professional team who make an effort to put together a fair and helpful assessment of what a premier dating site can do for you.

These calls also reassure parents that I'm not out to make life more difficult for their child, that I'm fair in my assessments and feedback, and that I genuinely want to see students succeed.

That model, I think, is now well known across the state: standards - based curriculum, radically better assessments,... a fair but rigorous accountability system which, as you know, the Regents will soon put into regulations creating the framework of evaluation for principals and teachers.

by Brett Wigdortz, founder and CEO, Teach First; Fair access: Making school choice and admissions work for all by Rebecca Allen, reader in the economics of education at the Institute of Education, University of London; School accountability, performance and pupil attainment by Simon Burgess, professor of economics at the University of Bristol, and director of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation; The importance of teaching by Dylan Wiliam, emeritus professor at the Institute of Education, University of London; Reducing within - school variation and the role of middle leadership by James Toop, ceo of Teaching Leaders; The importance of collaboration: Creating «families of schools» by Tim Brighouse, a former teacher and chief education officer of Oxfordshire and Birmingham; Testing times: Reforming classroom teaching through assessment by Christine Harrison, senior lecturer in science education at King's College London; Tackling pupil disengagement: Making the curriculum more engaging by David Price, author and educational consultant; Beyond the school gates: Developing children's zones for England by Alan Dyson, professor of education at the University of Manchester and co-director of the Centre for Equity in Education, Kirstin Kerr, lecturer in education at the University of Manchester and Chris Wellings, head of programme policy in Save the Children's UK Programme; After school: Promoting opportunities for all young people in a locality by Ann Hodgson, professor of education and director of the Learning for London @IOE Research Centre, Institute of Education, University of London and Ken Spours, professor or education and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University of London.

The rationale for the assessment is to make accountability of primary schools fairer.

In addition, Kentucky and Vermont have incorporated portfolios into their statewide assessments of student achievement — another effort to offer a broader picture of student achievement, and the now - defunct Massachusetts Reform Review Commission convened representatives from various stakeholder groups to devise a strategy for expanding the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System to make it fairer and more comprehensive.

This move would mean fairer and more robust arrangements for the collection of teacher assessment data.

A: SGOs can be based on assessments that teachers currently use to evaluate their students, as long as they are fair and accurate measures of their students» performance (see SGO guidebook for guidance on this).

These tests were developed to provide thorough, fair and carefully validated assessments for states to use as part of the licensure process for principals, superintendents and school leaders.

Fundamentally a network of local level volunteers dedicated to making assessment fair, open and educationally sound, our goal is to open the doors to disadvantaged children by removing barriers to achievement, while improving the quality of education for everyone.

As innovative assessments are administered and used for accountability and reporting in participating schools, states in the demonstration authority can apply lessons learned from implementation to improve their innovative systems and take these projects to scale, building a new statewide assessment system over 5 years - one that is high - quality, fair, and worth taking.

CentreForum stresses that if pupil progress does become the main measure for school accountability, assessments for children at the start of their primary school journey must be «valid, fair and reliable».

Don: Access to computers and computer - skill building before computer - administered assessments is clearly a major equity issue, and very much part of what test developers do to ensure tests are «fair» for all subgroups being tested.

Now is one of those times for what I believe is a fair assessment of one example of Kane's unpublished and externally un-vetted works.

If Dave's wants to clarify his quote, then of course he is welcome to clarify it, but I do think it was a fair quote to use in terms of its focus on the need for common core instruction prior to common core assessments.

What do high standards and fair assessments for students with disabilities look like in the work of students and in the practice of teachers?

State experts, local educators, postsecondary faculty and community members from the PARCC states conduct rigorous reviews of every item and passage being developed for the PARCC assessment system to ensure all test items are of the highest quality, aligned to the standards, and fair for all student populations.

The Field Test is a trial run of the assessment system that helps ensure the assessments are valid, reliable, and fair for all students.

This quick, simple assessment will us help to capture the progress that children make throughout primary school and provides a fairer measure for school accountability.

«Assessments should be valid and fair, and be designed for the benefit of students.»

Mr. Carvalho told the board he'll continue to push for «fair assessment and accountability» for local students and teachers.

The Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA, requires that assessments be valid, reliable, and fair for all students, including students with disabilities and English language learners.

SBAC intends to be a system of valid, reliable, and fair next - generation assessments in English language arts / literacy (ELA / literacy) and mathematics for grades 3 - 8 and 11.

In addition to examining the processes and the assessments, the school district must provide the validity documentation and reliability calculations, assuring that their processes have produced fair, accurate assessment results of sufficient quality for state reporting.

The first step toward a fair and transparent performance assessment mechanism for Wisconsin's schools is to require that all schools receiving taxpayer funding administer the same assessment or set of assessments.

It is also paradoxical that teachers report their training for internal assessments as «Good» but their training to use external assessments was only «Fair.»

The National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest), the country's leading assessment reform organization, today called on Maryland legislators to prohibit the State Board of Education from requiring students to pass a test or series of exams in order to receive a high school diploma.

You can then see how fair and accurate their feedback is, and you can ask for evidence that supports their opinions when their assessments don't match yours.

What really concerns me is the delusion that it is fair for content to be learned and applied during a high - stakes assessment.

If all testing companies would clearly explain that their reading comprehension tests are tests of knowledge, and if they would explain — as the ACT's Chrys Dougherty does — that the only way to prepare for them is to build broad knowledge, then we could begin to create a fair and productive assessment and accountability system.